Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Odilon Redon, Johan Christian Dahl and Francisco Goya. A woman is shut in an upstairs room for her nerves — no work, no writing, no company — and left alone with the wallpaper. Gilman had been prescribed that same rest cure, and she wrote the story to show a doctor what it does to a mind. Paired with it here is Herland, the novel she wrote twenty-three years later: three American men stumble into a country where no man has set foot for two thousand years, and discover a civilization that has quietly solved the problems theirs cannot name. One book is a room with the door shut; the other is the world that woman might have built. Together they are Gilman entire. Fifty-seven plates of empty rooms, tall windows and waiting figures by Hammershøi and Sickert turn the shut door and the open country into one continuous interior.